Edition of October, 1887. Selective relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "Grave par C. Legras." "Ecrit par Vialard." Prime meridian: Paris. "No. 3784." "124-181."
Treaty concerning the Cession of the Russian Possessions in North America by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias to the United States of America; Concluded March 30, 1867. Ratified by the United States May 28, 1867; Exchanged June 20, 1867;...
Shows route of Cook's 3rd voyage. Relief shown pictorially; depths shown by soundings. "Andre, scul." "Bonne fil.del.?" Prime meridian: Paris. Inset: Plan du havre de Samgano Odha dans l'isle de Oonalaska." "126." Compass rose. "Cook, 3d...
Shows names of indigenous groups, forts, towns and Mackenzie's discoveries. Border includes geographical and historical information. Selective relief shown by hachures. Title in top margin: Carte geographique, statistique et historique des...
Shows route of Billings' 1786-1794 expedition. Relief shown by hachures. "Planche XV." From Sauer's Voyage fait par ordre de l'imperatrice de Russe, Catherine II, dans le nord de la Russie asiatique …
Shows Greenland, Iceland and a portion of St. James Island. Relief shown pictorially. From A.F. Prevost's Histoire generale des voyages. "Voyages 4° Tom. XIX pag. 1ere. Voyages in 12 Tom. LXXIII pag. 1ere. Tome 18 in 8°, page 105."
Shows the Americas with California as an island and Greenland as part of a great polar continent. Sheet 1 of a two part set titled: Carte generale de toutes les costes du monde et les pays nouvellement decouvert, dressee sur les relations les plus...
Shows Northwestern America and the northeastern tip of Asia, including an enormous and prominent false "Mer l'Ouest" as well as a clear North West Passage; based on the rare De L'Isle map which supposedly chronicled the discoveries of one "Admiral...
Engraved map of Russia, with information based on Russian maps. Double sheet map (glued together). Half circle title top center. Cutaways in bottom corners, one showing scales, one labeled "Observation," acknowledging what maps the information...
Shows names of indigenous groups, forts, towns and Mackenzie's discoveries. Border includes geographical and historical information. Selective relief shown by hachures. Title in top margin: Carte geographique, statistique et historique des...
Hand colored. Polar projection. Shows Robert de Vaugondy's proposed route across the North Pole to the Pacific Ocean. Published in Paris in 1774. [Ches l'Auteur Quai de l'horloge du Palais prex le Pont neuf]. Scale is not given (W180...
Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Polar projection. Kamchatka Peninsula and details of the Russian coastline are missing from this version of de L'Isle's north polar projection, which, along with added text, can be found on his 1740...
United States atlas: maps and charts accompanying the case and counter case of the United States, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
"Dediee et presente au roy par son tres humble, tres obeysant, et tres fidele serviteur et sujet Louis Claude de Vezou." "Gravee par J. Lattre." Includes 11 circular charts showing solar and lunar eclipses, positions of the horizon, and models of...
Relief shown pictorially. From From Prevost's Histoire generale des voyages. "Suivant les decouvertes des Hollandois et les cartes des Russes." "Tome XV in 4° No. 3. Tome 17 in 8° page 331."
Hand colored. From Renard's Atlas de la Navigation (1715). Polar projection. Sheet illustrated with the figure of Atlas carrying the globe in the shape of a planisphere. Shows California as an island.